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VMware Workstation 12: The Physical disk is already in use.....

Greetings,


All was well, until i changed the computer name of the Host (Windows 10 enterprise running VMware Workstation 12) in Control Panel>System.

Now When i launched VMware workstation 12 and try to start the VM operating system (Windows 2012 server) i have to two error messages

1)   The physical disk is already in use................

2)   Cannot open the disk ‘windows 2012 server.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.


I read some discussions which suggested the following:

Try to add user __vmware__ with Full Access rights to file "filename.vmd".  - This did not work

Delete the .lck files and folders - This did not work either.

So before i do anymore damages - i thought i would post here my issue. Can anyone help me?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Eric

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